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The Robosapien is the best-selling Christmas toy everyone forgot about
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The Robosapien is the best-selling Christmas toy everyone forgot about

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Ted Bauer
Nov 23, 2013
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Esquire did a timeline of the top-selling Christmas toys by year. If you click through it, you'll notice three main themes: first, Elmo toys have won the entire market about three or four times; that's probably best explained in this article.  Second, most of the toys that won years even back into the 1990s still resonate today, be it XBox (which is und…

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